Despite the hours I've put into this, I struggle to play it. The game is relatively empty. There's no museum to complete. I liked the custom furniture mechanic. I want to 100% the achievements but every time I go into the game, no matter what I do, it feels like a chore. Farming feels horrendous when you first unlock it simply because your watering can can only water 6 crops until you have to refill it again. I'm sure there's an upgraded watering can, but it really shouldn't feel this bad when you're just starting.

I struggle to find the purpose of playing this game. Animal Crossing has many sets to collect, furniture wise and clothing wise. But in this game it forces you to rely on your own creations or other players creations when it comes to decorating. Many of the items you can buy are lackluster, and aren't all that appealing. Which can suck if you're not really that good with the customization features.

The merits update is what brought me back at one point hence the hours, but I haven't gotten all of them yet. While the merits give me things to do and rewards for doing them, there's A LOT of requirements needed. Most of which can be gotten over time, but if you struggle with the customization features, and dislike the farming, it's a lot more difficult to get through the merits that requires those two things.

For anything that requires me to have a certain amount of custom creations, it's a lot easier if I just place one piece down on a decoration blueprint, save, and repeat until I reach the needed amount. But doing it that way simply just defeats the purpose of having the custom creation features. I don't have fun spending HOURS on ONE DECENT blueprint just to see that I'm not making ANY progress in getting the merits that require me to have multiple custom creations. It's a quantity over quality issue for me. Don't get me wrong, I love making my own furniture, especially when it comes to making my own storage solutions. But it isn't reasonable to put in actual effort into making blueprints/clothes if some merits requires wayyyyy too much, as it would take WAYYYYYY too many hours just to get one merit done.

Now I don't want to discourage the dev that worked on this game. But I just feel like this game had way too much wasted potential, and the game comes off to people as an Animal Crossing rip-off. Even more so because the dev just stopped doing anything with the game all together. Whether that's due to lack of funding or not. I mean they stopped updating New Horizons but even that game has way more in terms of content, and that game forces you to play every day due to how time-gated that game is. And after playing this game, I'm starting to understand why the Animal Crossing series as a whole is time-gated.

I really tried to give this game a chance but I just found no real purpose or enjoyment from it. I've over 150 hours on ACNH and many hours playing cosy games so I do enjoy laid back cosy games. However, for me this game is, sadly, bland and empty feeling.

I really enjoyed the custom furniture builder which I feel like a lot of time and developing went into this aspect, it's not something I've come across before in other cosy/farm games. Other than that the NPCs felt like they had little character and didn't feel engaging enough to make me want to do fetch quests.

The game opens up a bit too late into playing for me and by the point I could explore the caves I was already bored.

Game play is like animal crossing mixed with stardew valley and harvest moon. its been fun and entertaining! cool aspect unlike any of those games the designing aspect, it is really fun!!!!